General Motors announced that it will shutter Pontiac by 2010. But before it goes, let's take a look at some of the coolest cars Pontiac produced.

A look back at Pontiac

The Pontiac Trans Am: Another iconic muscle car (upgraded)
The Trans Am was an upgrade package for the Firebird, typically usually with superior handling, suspension, and horsepower, as well as minor appearance changes to hoods, spoilers, fog lights and/or wheels. "If you were a boy growing up in the 70s or early 80s, the '78 Pontiac Trans Am in the black and gold "Bandit" livery, complete with the flaming chicken vinyl on the hood, sat right next to the Lamborghini Countach in your fantasy garage. For '78, the compression was bumped in the top-line V8 and this end-of-malaise era automobile made a stout (for the time) 220 HP. Burt Reynolds, along with that repressed little redneck inside all of us, will miss the '78 Trans Am," according to Jalopnik.com.